# Drawing a median line in a histogram in Plots
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drawing-a-median-line-in-a-histogram-in-plots/63682
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** package, plotting
**Created:** [June 28, 2021, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drawing-a-median-line-in-a-histogram-in-plots/63682 "2021-06-28T09:29:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@HerAdri](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HerAdri)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drawing-a-median-line-in-a-histogram-in-plots/63682/1 "2021-06-28T09:29:07Z")
Following the idea of the [link](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drawing-a-median-line-in-a-histogram-in-makie/63359), I reproduced the graph using the Plots package, and I got the following questions:
It is possible to replace the following lines of code with a command:
```julia
subplot = plot!()[1]
h = extrema(Plots.axis_limits(subplot, :y))[2]
```
how to make the following lines of code run faster:
```julia
plot!(x->pdf(dist , x), xlim=xlims(),color=:red)
```
how to avoid that, in different runs, the density plot overlaps the annotation “median = …”?
**full code**
```julia
using Plots, Statistics, Distributions, Printf
dist = Normal(0, 1).+1
data = rand(dist, 1000)
plot(data,t=:histogram,normalize=true)
subplot = plot!()[1]
h = extrema(Plots.axis_limits(subplot, :y))[2]
m = median(data)
plot!([m],linetype=:vline,widths=3)
annotate!(m*1.1, h, Plots.text(string("median: ", @sprintf("%.0f", m)), :green, :left, 6))
#using Distributions
plot!(x->pdf(dist , x), xlim=xlims(),color=:red)
plot!(legend = false)
```
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drawing-a-median-line-in-a-histogram-in-plots/63682/2 "2021-06-28T12:40:53Z")
> [@HerAdri](#):
>
> It is possible to replace the following lines of code with a command:
>
> ```julia
> plot(data,t=:histogram,normalize=true)
> subplot = plot!()[1]
> h = extrema(Plots.axis_limits(subplot, :y))[2]
>
> ```
Possibly that might be written more simply as:
```julia
plot(data,t=:histogram,normalize=true)
h = ylims()[2]
```
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drawing-a-median-line-in-a-histogram-in-plots/63682/3 "2021-06-28T12:58:19Z")
> [@HerAdri](#):
>
> how to make the following lines of code run faster:
>
> ```julia
> plot!(x->pdf(dist , x), xlim=xlims(),color=:red)
>
> ```
This seems faster:
```julia
x = LinRange(xlims()...,100)
plot!(x, pdf(dist , x), xlim=xlims(),color=:red)
```
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### Author:  [@HerAdri](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HerAdri)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drawing-a-median-line-in-a-histogram-in-plots/63682/4 "2021-06-28T14:40:58Z")
h=max(ylims()…)
👍
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/drawing-a-median-line-in-a-histogram-in-plots/63682/5 "2021-06-28T14:46:57Z")
> [@HerAdri](#):
>
> how to avoid that, in different runs, the density plot overlaps the annotation “median = …”?
As for your last question, the simplest is to display the annotation higher in the plot.